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ADVERTISEMENT Search Elmore NEWS REVIEWS FEATURES CONTESTS PHOTOS CALENDAR MERCH ADVERTISE ADVERTISEMENT 96 Artist: Swamp Cabbage Album: Jive Label: Walter Parks Release Date: 04/04/2016 BUY DIGITAL BUY PHYSICAL ALBUM REVIEWS Swamp Cabbage Jive Album Reviews | August 25th, 2016 Walter Parks is a tall man who wears many hats: singer, songwriter, guitarist, and leader of Swamp Cabbage, a powerful rock trio rooted in the mystery of the Okefenokee. For ten years he served as sideman for Richie Havens until his passing in 2013. Mr.Parks is also the creator of “Swamp By Chandelier,” a solo concert experience that incorporates his original tunes, some by Havens, and the historical hollers and stories of the southeast Georgia swampers, aka “Crackers.” Swamp Cabbage’s latest release Jive is an amalgamation of southern rock, blues, jazz, funk, and instrumental oddities. At times, Park’s raspy growl and beefy blues lines bring to mind ZZ Top, an inuence he does not deny, but his lyrical prowess, jazzier chord choices, and relative lack of guitar solos distinguishes his tunes from those of Top. Parks writes with great humor on the rst track “Buttah,” an ode to the delicious lipid. The chorus lets us know,“Day g’on be butta people where you from/ That’s just the way this kinda food g’on come/ Day g’on be waes cause you’re
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Swamp CabbageJiveAlbum Reviews | August 25th, 2016
Walter Parks is a tall man who wears manyhats: singer, songwriter, guitarist, andleader of Swamp Cabbage, a powerful rocktrio rooted in the mystery of theOkefenokee. For ten years he served assideman for Richie Havens until his passingin 2013. Mr.Parks is also the creator of“Swamp By Chandelier,” a solo concertexperience that incorporates his originaltunes, some by Havens, and the historicalhollers and stories of the southeastGeorgia swampers, aka “Crackers.”
Swamp Cabbage’s latest release Jive is anamalgamation of southern rock, blues,jazz, funk, and instrumental oddities. Attimes, Park’s raspy growl and beefy blueslines bring to mind ZZ Top, an in�uence hedoes not deny, but his lyrical prowess,jazzier chord choices, and relative lack of guitar solos distinguishes his tunes fromthose of Top. Parks writes with great humor on the �rst track “Buttah,” an ode to thedelicious lipid. The chorus lets us know,“Day g’on be butta people where youfrom/ That’s just the way this kinda food g’on come/ Day g’on be wa�es cause you’re
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in da house/ Day g’on be butta ‘cause you in the south/ Buttah!” I think this is the �rsttime in my life I’ve found myself pumping my �st along to a chorus about butter! Youwill too. Such are the skills of Mr.Parks.
NY drummer supreme Jagoda lays down an irresistible second line shu�e on “Big ForJust A Little While,” while “White Gold” moves with a Waitsian junkyard groove. Parkshas a staggeringly wide vocal range and is as agile scraping low notes as high falsettos,which he does to great e�ect on “Cash,” a tale of the band’s willingness to do whateverit takes to get paid. “Bilbao Spain” is a hilarious critique of American cultural naiveteand how Ponce de Leon don’t get no respect in Spain. Bearded bassist and engineerJim Devito forks out a fat and fuzzy bottom end while Parks ponti�cates.“I’m asking allaround about Ponce de Leon/ the founder of the Fountain of Youth/ I know him as astatue pigeons pee on/ my hero don’t deserve such abuse/ forgotten conquistador it’stodo claro who you did it all for.” Anyone who can so seamlessly incorporate Spanish,history and humor into a rock song has got my respect!
There are ten tunes in all on this dynamic disk, all of them awesome. As the name socomically implies, Swamp Cabbage is redolent with the pungent funkiness of southernbogs. This is roots rock at its �nest peppered with satirical humor and keenobservations on odd Americana. You can be sure it was made with lots of “Buttah.”Highly recommended!
– Michael Cobb
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